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Yard placement for mating nucs

I'm anticipating setting up about twenty to thirty mating nucs this upcoming weekend depending on how many queens I cull and I'm curious how far away from the original apiary I should place the mating nucs. I don't have enough yards set up this year so that I can do a mating yard setup with a bunch of drone mother colonies around it. The original yard that I'm wanting to set them up close to has twenty-three full sized colonies in it and I only grafted cells from three of those colonies so even though inbreeding is possible I think the odds are in my favor. This is also my first attempt at rearing queens so it's more of an experiment than an earnest queen rearing program.